30 Free Smart PSDs to Help You Create Easy Text Effects

Traditionally, the Photoshop Style was the tool designers used to share their text effects, but these days the Smart PSD has become the new weapon of choice for sharing pre-made effects. Smart PSDs make use of Photoshop Smart Objects, which allow the user to edit the source of a specific layer in order to update the whole PSD with new content. In comparison to Photoshop Styles, Smart PSDs give the designer much more freedom when creating the original effect, allowing them to use Filters alongside Layer Styles to achieve brilliant results. In this roundup I present 30 of the best FREE text effect PSDs I could find. They help you produce stunning effects with ease by simply customising the file with your own text or logo.

I can’t figure out how to work these and I’m sorry if this is a basic question. I downloaded the “Cinematic Title Effect” as an experiment. If i click on the red upper layer in the PSD I get several messages about how I don’t have the same font. That’s ok since I can bypass those and change the font to whatever I like but doing that simply opens up a separate PSD file with the fonts and no matter what I do, the fonts on that PSD don’t apply to the whole thing. The “Effects” group and the “Shadow” group have well over 50 different layers collectively so they would all have to change at the same time. How can I get the upper layer changed text to apply to all the other layers? Thanks for your help.

All these files will have a highlighted Smart Object layer that requires editing. Double click the thumbnail of this layer to edit its contents. Once you’ve changed the text in the Smart Object file, save and close it, which will return you back to the main PSD with all the text and effects automatically updated.

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